Do we keep just getting sick over and over again?

General Discussion
#1

I’m not sure if anyone wrote this theory before, but i couldn’t find anything with the search feature. This is just my own thoughts and i have no publications to back this up nor do I know how it ties in with the current thoughts on epigenetics and neurotransmitters. I’m just thinking here, which is why it’s in the Theories section.

I’m just wondering if our bodies just keeping getting sick. I’m not sure about the why’s, maybe it has something to do with the hormonal aspect, but i think there are several signs pointing to lowered immunity.

  1. low stomach acid - I feel i definitely have this, as if i eat things that are difficult to digest, i’m burping and farting all day. I read a website that connected low stomach acid to a lot of symptoms i experience, like itchiness and possible mineral deficient twitching:

bodyecology.com/articles/low_sto … NsyMo6WNJ-

  1. dry eyes

  2. lack of snot/boogers

  3. cannot urinate with the same force as before and sometimes two streams drizzle out, which i think someone said limits your body from expelling pathogens in the urine…not sure if this is true

  4. lowered metabolism/heartrate/body temperature…mine is definitely lower than before on all accounts

  5. just the feeling of being sick…I remember what it feels like to be sick before all of this, and sometimes I just feel that bodily feeling however i cannot point to a symptom such as high fever or whatever…it’s just a feeling in the body

All of these would indicate that our line of defense is lowered from keeping things out of our bodies.

Maybe our bodies are trying to constantly fight off different diseases, which is why we feel so bad all the time. I remember how my body feels when it is really sick with a heavy fever: sleep is restless, body is uncomfortable, libido is gone…Maybe our bodies “win” sometimes which cause our temporary recoveries just for us to be re-infected again down the line (crash)

#2

I would disagree, many people including myself haven’t been sick since they got off propecia, no colds or flu etc. it’s not getting sick over and over, it’s a hormonal loop.

#3

Same here, haven´t been sick since I got off Propecia

#4

everything else does apply though!

except for the getting sick part. I never get sick anymore either.

#5

No, you’re missing what I am saying

I think, and this is just a thought that could be completely wrong, but I think we MAYBE are getting sick, but our bodies just aren’t reacting to it like normal anymore.

I haven’t been able to produce a fever response…I think maybe one time i had a fever in the last 3 years, but before PFS I got majorly sick twice a year.

Currently, more than twice a year I’ll have a time where there are just subtle hints that I could be sick, like soreness, sore throat, sort of an unclean feeling when I urinate, plenty and plenty of restless sleep, just an overall discomfort in the body…

Maybe we are getting sick, but many of us have lost the common bodily sick response. This is by the way one of the symptoms I remember seeing for thyroid problems: lack of an ability to make a fever.

I can give another example of my body’s inability to produce the same response as before. I have been diagnosed as Obsessive /Compulsive since I was in college. Would get really bad anxiety and distressing thoughts and depression due to lack or impaired ability to process seratonin, that I had to take meds to keep under control, which I did successfully for many years. In case you are wondering these meds didnt contribute to my PFS; I never got any sides from them besides lowering my anxiety. However since this PFS got really bad a year and a half ago, I don’t feel the symptoms from it anymore. I haven’t taken any meds for it for a year and a half. Every once in awhile I’ll feel distressed and can’t stop thinking about PFS but then it generally just fades away. I’m sure part of it is I now have more mental coping mechanisms to deal with attacks than before, but i can just guarantee that physiologically in my brain or in my body’s response to the brain, something is just different. I’m just not responding to it the way I was before.

During the three temporary recoveries I have had in the last year and a half, when they occurred, I felt the obsessions and anxiety return to the point where I felt i needed to find a prescription for meds. However, each recovery was short lived.

In general i am just wondering out loud if our body’s can’t respond traditionally to sickness anymore, and on the surface level we don’t perceive our sicknesses, but below the surface level our bodies might constantly be fighting, causing some of what we go through…

just a theory, feel free to punch holes in it